Many of us love Discourse because it allows us to customize it, especially those of us who code (some of us just “code”) and are used to set every detail in everything we use.
We know that most of our users don’t share our passion and want everything to be within one or -at most- two clicks/taps.
I find that the profile page has too many buttons and too much noise for users to find what they’re looking for without getting lost or giving up along the way.
I know that completely transforming this Discourse space will take time, but I find there’s something very simple that can work:
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Unify the ‘Security’ options with ‘Account’. They are closely related and it makes sense for them to be displayed in a single layout.
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Likewise, I find that ‘Following’ and ‘Notifications’ could follow a similar path, although this might require closer analysis than simply merging and calling it done.
Thoughts? I believe that in the new Discourse that we’re all enjoying, this is the last thing that’s still very rough and should be updated soon.